END 211 - Systems Thinking and Analysis

Course Objectives

1. Systems and understanding system concept
2. Earning the ability to perceive an organization as a system
3. Defining the problems, analyzing the system, designing the new system, setting up the preparation phase of the new system and learning the application phase of the system

Course Description

System definition, hierarchy of systems, principles of systems approach, systems concepts, system as black boxes. Systems analysis, systems design, implementation, operation. Soft systems methodology and its stages. Systems thinking, feedback loops, behaviors of systems.